The Vampire Bridegroom
A collection of poems and short stories.
From Bram Stoker Award-winner Chad Helder comes The Vampire Bridegroom, his sweeping collection of horror poems and tales that explore the dark crevices of genre in a spectrum of forms.
Included here in this horror collage are poems that yearn to be horror movies. From a nightmarish array of vampires in the landscape of troubled adolescence to beastly transformations and horrifying awakenings... from the twisted theories of Hansel Fruehner — the perverted and blasphemous student of Freud — to scary fairy tales. Along the way, explore the mythos of the Gory Boy and Queen Bloody Mary, encounter the ever-present figure of Satan in the mind of a preacher's son and, of course, meet the sharp-toothed title character himself.
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Chad Helder
Chad Helder is the author of The Pop-Up Book of Death, a collection of dark poetry, and The Vampire Bridegroom, a horror book of narrative poems and flash fiction.
With Vince Liaguno, Helder co-edited Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet (Dark Scribe Press, 2008), which won the Bram Stoker Award.
Helder wrote the comic book Bartholomew of the Scissors (Bluewater, 2008) and a series of stories for Vincent Price Presents (Bluewater, 2008-2011), some of which have been produced as radio plays by the Colonial Radio Theatre in Boston.
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